How did you get your name or your childrens name?

[happylabs]

Even though I was named after my mom's mom, Helen, I have never like my first name. Sorry Grandma Helen that I never met.
Growing up, to me, Helen seemed like an old lady's name. There was only one other Helen all through school and she was a bit weird.

My middle name is Kay and I always wanted my first name to be that. Oh well.

My children are Caleb and Rachael. My son was the first born. I wanted to name him Evan. My husband liked Caleb. Up until the day I was induced for failure to go into labor we had not picked out a name. I had general anesthesia because I had a c-section and back in the day that was what they had to offer. So I was completely out of it for almost the first day after he was born and my baby boy became Caleb Evan, and now I would not change it for the world. He is 24, married and still my sweet boy!

Rachael was a name we both liked. My ex wanted to be able to call her Rock for a nickname. She is 22 years old now and he still calls her "Rock" sometimes. When Rachael was a baby she had a full head of black hair and my husband (ex now) used to stand her hair up and call her his "punk rock girl". Still makes me smile after all these years.

So that's my story.....

[david p]

I was named David after an old mayor of Pittsburgh. I almost got the mayor's last name, Lawrence, for a middle name, but my dad thought it was too long of a name so my middle name is Reed. I like all of the variations of the name "David" except for Davey (yuck!).

[k9krazee]

My name is Ashley Marie, it doesn't get more generic than that :P It's okay, I like it and most people call me Ash these days', or Actually Ashley. I was going to be an Amanda, but for some reason at the last minute they decided on Ashley.

My twin brother's name is Adam...you would never believe how many people ask me why my name isn't Eve.

My mom let my brothers and I name our little sister, we decided on Monica Star. I love her name.

I'd like to name future hypothetical children Isabel "Izzy" Rose after my grandmother and fMIL and Arwin Joe (or some variation of Arthur/Darwin. maybe Arwyn for a girl) after my dad and grandpa.

[RICHARD]

I was on the playground and someone called me "stupid", the name stuck.....

[Taz_Zoee]

I was on the playground and someone called me "stupid", the name stuck.....

We were never allowed to call each other stupid or say shut up growing up. The reason was because my dad's father never called him by his name. He only called him stupid or shorty. Apparently my grandfather (that I never met) didn't like his name either, but my dad (his third son) got stuck with it.
It is a bad name, but I often thought if I ever had a daughter (which will NEVER happen) I might have named her after him.......sort of. His name is (oh, he'd kill me if he knew I was putting this out there on the internet) Arbrie. I think Aubrey is a pretty name for a girl. Or Audrey. But we don't have to worry about that happening.

[finn's mom]

Cool stories!

Mine is Kari Ann . . . my mom read an article about the Kennedy family, and there was mention of a Karianne, with no middle name listed. She split the name and dropped the "E". I love my name, even though most people misspell it constantly and some mispronounce it. It's pronounced like the verb "carry", but I get people who call me "Car-ee" . . . "Car" like a vehicle. I always tell them I'm not that exotic haha.

Clara Elizabeth is our daughter, and we had a top three for most of my pregnancy - Clara, Natalie and Josephine. We ultimately went with Clara because it was unique (it ended up being a choice between Natalie and Clara). Elizabeth because that's both her grandmothers' first names. We plan to have a second, and if it's a girl, we are leaning towards Josephine Marie (Marie is my mom's middle name, Mariana is my husband's mother's middle name . . . funny how they have such similar names). If it's a boy, we are pretty sure we'll call him Kenneth Duane (first names of both our dads). My husband doesn't have a middle name, and I LOVE the name David, so I told him I'd be more than happy to name a son David and give him a middle name, so that he's not a Junior. Although, I like the naming of sons after their fathers.

And, FYI, I think Eleanor is beautiful.

I love some of the classic names my friends are going with . . . Genevieve (Evie for short), Evelyn (also Evy for short), Edie (she was almost named Edith, but they went with the short name for her full name).

[catnapper]

My kids were named by my husband and his first wife. I decided they answered to their names os I kept the names


Cameron was supposed to be Collin. Then the day before he was born, mommy found out daddy was cheating on her. She finally told him that the baby would have her last name. After hours of labor, she was exhausted enough to bemanipulated into being named Cameron after some member of his family. Story of their relatiosnhip --- lies and manipulation. Happily, we got a great little kid out of it!

[catnapper]

The story of my name: I was supposed to be Debra. Mom heard a nurse talking about her sister Kim and liked it. She was signing hte birth certificate as Kimberlee, when the nurse told her how to properly spell it. In highschool, I wanted to have that "lee", but now I am soooo glad to have the normal "ly". Thank goodness for that nurse!


My husband was named after the family's horse! No idea why, but I think its hysterical.

[gemini9961]

I'm not entirely sure how my name came to be but I can tell you how we named our kids. Our first born is Connor Jeffrey. Hubby picked the first name. He saw it in a baby book when my BIL and SIL were trying to name their kid. Hubby liked it so we used it for our son. Jeffrey is after his daddy (my hubby). Baby boy #2 (due to arrive any day) will be Carson Robert. I picked Carson. My lady that does my hair has a son named Carson. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me and I suggested it to hubby. He wasn't digging it right away but then he said we could go with it. Robert is after my grandfather on my mom's side. I miss him dearly, he passed away in 1998.

[sparks19]

My mom and dad couldn't agree on a name even up until my mom went into labor. BUT my mom just happened to be listening to Tanya Tucker on the radio when she went into labor so Viola! Tanya... my middle name (Marie) is after my maternal grandmother.

Hannah's name doesn't have much of a story. We had all kinds of boys names picked out but I had nothing for a girl. One day we were just driving around and Brian said "you know what I like for a girls name? Hannah" hmmm Hannah... I like that. and it stuck lol. her middle name is Marie also. kind of keep the tradition going I guess lol.

Except now people keep mixing us up. Tanya Marie and Hannah marie... they sound similar so we get some funny mix ups like Tana or Hannya lol

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sara Lee. Because I was such a little cupcake. Never knew another Sara until I was grown and every other little girl was Sara. And please note, unlike a certain "politician" I spell it correctly...

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Here in Belgium a middle name isn't important at all, as people never use it! Kids get extra names though, but these name or names are just the names of the godmother and godfather. Sometimes parents change the name to the female version when it is a girl! My parents forgat to do this, so I am wearing a male name as 3rd name
But like I said, we never use our extra names here at all!
What is my full name like then: Lutgarde Mariëtte Jacques
Lutgarde is the name of e Flemish saint; my parents and all my friends shorten my name to "LUT"
Mariëtte is my godmother (mom's 3rd sister), and Jacques (male name ) is my godfather(dad's younger brother).

We didn't do this with our kids' names. Our son kept his original name from Korea, we only skipped an "o" in his first name, to make it easier for him. So his full name is JO HYUN (used to be JOO HYUN) . For our daughter we chose another but also Indian name, because the one she had in India was to difficult for here! We chose her new name from a list of Indian names, and kept her original name as her second name! So her full name is now Indra Mukul.

I hope that my explanation is clear??

[Karen]

Sara Lee. Because I was such a little cupcake. Never knew another Sara until I was grown and every other little girl was Sara. And please note, unlike a certain "politician" I spell it correctly...

It's funny, the girls named Sara I grew up with (there were always more than one) were about 50/50 as to whether it was Sara or Sarah! And while I was one of three girls in my own fairly small hometown with the same first and last names, all the teachers spelled Karen "my" way and the one whose parents chose the Norwegian (instead of Swedish) version and spelled it Karin had a heck of time getting anyone to spell HER name correctly. Her older brother and my younger brother were the same age and in a Boy Scout troop together.